The Digital News World

When I was a kid , I remember there was not much options on our TV to watch. There were only some channels that would provide more entertaining comedy drama than today's news channel. The entertainment is now converted in infotainment. With viral information on socially active sites available to everyone we forget to sit and share new information.

There is a wing in all this mass media that deals with reporting and sharing news information. I have worked on some news sites and i categorize them in different categories. They are all infotainment sites for me if you want to put them in single categories, if you want to further segregate them then they are the following

Personally Maintained News Site:

  As a developer I had woke up in the morning with an idea of making news site many times. Similarly many of you had thought about it too. I had made some news sites that i maintain myself. These sites are not that informative as it may have two to three authors involved or sometimes only single guy is responsible for the whole site. Purpose of this site is just uploading relevant or irreverent news to attract traffic and cash traffic to ad-sense or bitly or other adds services. Information on such sites are grafted to get traffic, and many do share stories that are not proper for children. As there is no editor or editorial policies they can copy  my post and change it into news and then share it to social media. Once people sees the stupid punch line and a funny photo they are intimated to click on it. Owner of the site gets cash when  traffic comes and adds are viewed.

Hackers News Sites:

  You may have seen posts that look really awesome but when you go there to read they always try to ask for some information or your antivirus sometimes stops you going on the website. Hackers are developers like me. Or not so like me because I am not going to scratch your card.For these guys this is something for fun, but others do this professionally. They do form a group online and then work together. As they all are technically sound, so their site looks smooth and they know what you want to see. On such sites content is not issue, the post made are re-posted again  and again. They just want you to come on their site and click on some stuff. They track your activity and sometimes download stuff in you temp directory and so that your information may ping back to them. If a group gets popular many companies may hire them for security or other stuff (if you know what I mean). For such news site many browsers are trying to mark as malicious sites but they cant cover all. You should refrain from going to such sites and also see anti virus notifications. Report such sites to proper authorities.

Small Group News Sites:

  If you have a group of friends with a similar interest. You like to share information and news ongoing events in specific fields then this is the category you belong to. Majorly these sites start as a hobby. From single owner it evolves to multiple authors. It has may have team of two or three but there are about nine or ten authors present on such sites. They are specific to the group or community of people who have same interests. These sites mostly have forums attached to them. You can have a discussions over a specific topics and also can share your news or information. Community interactions over internet is very much responsive and it is noted that such forums are active because "I am better at doing what you are doing", and you get a lot of help on such type of sites.

Company Funded News Sites:

 Many Companies has funded news sites for lobbing. Now these sites may come when elections are near. These are local news sites and cover area or specific to certain group. These also have printed magazines associated with them. So they feel authentic and have somewhat authority in the circle they are published. These sites are popular and they have targeted audience. These sites are also used to generate influence over specific government people. The people operating them have a very clear ind and objective and they mostly achieve their goals using such news sites. They inform about politics and politicians and also criticize government policies. These sites act like a legit newspaper and give stories and follow ups in the same pattern. But they are only used as a tool to influence opinion or influence officials. People may ire whole editorial team around 15 people for this purpose, reporters are hired to investigate and give evidence.

Viral Sites: 

  Do not worry they don't have viruses on these sites but may sometimes be having malicious activity. Mostly they are ping back or link building websites. They pick news from other news websites feeds and then shared on their own website while linking back to the original posts. These sites are authentic sites and if you are looking for something then do visit such sites. Feed from different sites come to one place and you are able to have everything at one spot.These are full throttler websites and have workforce to maintain and publish through proper monitoring of websites. They also report websites that are generating bad linking. Such sites has products adds and sponsored content. These sites share information and most of the time the content is not exclusive. The content on these sites  can go viral and many websites pay them to post sponsored content.

News Websites:

  These are authentic websites with news, views and reviews, it has also has broader number of topics. Its on mass media and they have most recent news. But they can make all the pain go away or they can make you feel worse. These channels are not boring. With a line up of anchors they have a much larger following. And there is no skip on these websites. they follow and follow and investigate and then follow, till the story dies. They might freak you out sometimes but at other they my adjust you to make your own opinion. From other sites they are in different place. They can mold your opinion and they can bubble up anything. These sites are in support of channels and sometimes these are powerful organizations. Many conspiracy theorist considered them as masked operations but in my opinion underneath its nothing.

Conspiracy Sites:

  Many people like stunts and many do want to see a guy jump from cliff (with parachute of-course). These sites are likely to be non focused, but they are mainly against much of the things happening around. They stays underground and then with something big and with certain evidence they come up as a big strong truth speaking site. These sites are mainly operation and the people handling these sites may have more information than you and me.  They don't have stories but opinions on situations and issues. But are very popular in youth. These sites are very energetic and have information you never have thought of. They may built something out of nothing. They sometimes had some information which is not supposed to be public and after that these sites majorly go offline unless its jumping multiple servers. Its adrenaline for news world and sometimes planted in place by government to move focus of masses from one issue to a different set of problems.



Media of any kind is important but it should know people wnat the truth and the only truth not fabricated not manipulated and not even made up.


Regards
Syed Sohaib Jamil